nic-api 0.1

NIC.RU API wrapper library

The package is a wrapper for the API of Russian DNS registrar Ru-Center (a.k.a. NIC.RU). The library provides classes for managing DNS services, zones and records.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install nic-api

If you want to use the module in your project, add this line to the project’s requirements.txt file:

nic-api

Usage

Setting up the OAuth credentials

To start using the API, you should get a pair of OAuth application login and password from NIC.RU. Here is the registration page: https://www.nic.ru/manager/oauth.cgi?step=oauth.app_register

Create a JSON file with the obtained credentials:

{
    "APP_LOGIN": "your_application_login",
    "APP_PASSWORD": "your_application_secret"
}

Make it secure and available to your Python app.

Initialization

Create an instance of nic_api.DnsApi and provide the filename of the application credentials storage you created above:

from nic_api import DnsApi
api = DnsApi('/path/to/oauth_config.json')

Call the authorize() method and specify the username and the password of your NIC.RU account, and a file to store the OAuth token for future use:

api.authorize(username='Your_account/NIC-D',
              password='Your_password',
              token_filename='nic_token.json')

Now you are ready to use the API.

While the token in token_filename file is valid, you don’t need to provide neither username or password to access the API - just create an instance of the DnsApi class with the same OAuth config, and pass only token_filename to the authorize() method.

Viewing services and DNS zones

In the NIC.RU, DNS zones are located in “services”:

api.services()

Usually there is one service per account. Let’s view available zones in the service MY_SERVICE:

api.zones('MY_SERVICE')

Always check if the zone has any uncommitted changes to it before making any modifications - your commit will apply other changes too!

Getting DNS records

For viewing or modifying records, you need to specify both service and DNS zone name:

api.records('MY_SERIVCE', 'example.com')

Creating a record

To add a record, create an instance of one of the nic_api.models.DNSRecord subclasses, i.e. ARecord:

from nic_api.models import ARecord
record_www = ARecord(name='www', a='8.8.8.8', ttl=3600)

Add this record to the zone and commit the changes:

api.add_record(record_www, 'MY_SERVICE', 'example.com')
api.commit('MY_SERVICE', 'example.com')

Deleting a record

Every record in the zone has an unique ID, and it’s accessible via DNSRecord.id property. When you got the ID, pass it to the delete_record method:

api.delete_record(100000, 'MY_SERVICE', 'example.com')
api.commit('MY_SERVICE', 'example.com')

Do not forget to always commit the changes!